He hath shut their eyes. — Better, their eyes are smeared over. The state described is the judicial blindness of Romans 1:20-25. It will be remembered that blindness thus inflicted was one of the tortures of Eastern cruelty.
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Isaiah 44:18
18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shutd their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.